Described by the author as a Renaissance soap opera, Immortali is a late sixteenth-century feast of pleasure and pain, exploring mysticism and heresy, tensions and jealousies, illusion and reality, smouldering passion, and murderous intrigue in Tuscany and Venice. This is an emotionally familiar debut novel, strangely exotic and heady as a Venetian perfume. Colourful actors with familiar names and the evil machinations of a masked villain drive the relentless action. The book brims with vivid scenes and an expert knowledge of the period, yet it is also a novel for today, a coming-of-age in an exciting era in which a young girl s longing for love and fame is the timeless theme. Made pregnant by rape and forced to flee her home, spoiled little rich girl, Giulia, finds life with the travelling actors harsh. But perhaps there s more to them than she realized. Can the charismatic Arlecchino, whom she adores in spite of his brutal treatment of her, really walk on air and step from one world to another? In pursuit of her dream to become the Immortali s leading lady, Giulia is drawn into the darkest supernatural peril. The flames of the Inquisition are stoked in readiness and only a miracle can save her.

The truth is worse than demons and vampires. For a thousand years, humans cowered beneath the rule of the Night Terrors, but Jaden's five-year-old sister is prophesied to stop them…if they don’t get to her first. To protect her, Jaden leads a rebellion against the Night Terrors, but when he is captured in battle and dragged before the demonic queen Ashra, he realizes that he has seen her face before…every night in his dreams. Ashra is fighting her own battle for survival against enemies without and treachery within. But when Jaden stumbles upon Ashra's darkest secret and uncovers the truth about the city of eternal night, he realizes that nothing may be what it seems…including himself. If Jaden and Ashra cannot unite humans, vampires, and demons to battle through the night…if they cannot survive the light of day… their millennium of misery and darkness would have been for nothing. If hope dies, this time, it will be forever… This award-winning e-book collection includes: 1. Eternal Night 2. Eternal Dawn 3. Eternal Day 4. Nocturnes (bonus novella--exclusive to this collection) "…a stunningly original take on post-apocalyptic sci fi, fantasy, paranormal, adventure, and (a touch of) romance…"

A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. This collaborative book of twenty-two chapters offers an expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production in the period stretching from the English Reformation to the Restoration. Chapters work together to trace the contours of a diverse body of early modern women's writing, aligning women's texts with the major literary, political, and cultural currents with which they engage. Contributors examine and take account of developments in critical theory, feminism, and gender studies that have influenced the reception, reading, and interpretation of early modern women's writing. This book explicates and interrogates significant methodological and critical developments in the past four decades, guiding and testing scholarship in this period of intense activity in the recovery, dissemination, and interpretation of women's writing.

A significant and original new study of a key dramatic form Author is both an historian and practitioner of the craft There are few up-to-date case studies of Commedia available in English